The ALC festival is a student-centered event that is designed to engage students from the planning stages to the presenting of all the some 30 events. This festival celebrates the work of our students beyond the classroom, giving them a greater arena to showcase their work.

The Artists in Bloom event gives talented students from Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Illustration, and 3D Animation the opportunity to paint live for 2 hours, while family, friends, and community members watch their paintings come to life. The paintings are then auctioned off and the money raised this year will go to support Dawson’s Financial Aid...

A week-long Sustainability event showcasing the field of sustainability, College milestones, and accomplishments Dawson has achieved with the help of its students, staff and faculty. We will have multiple locations around the school displaying all these accomplishments and will also welcome eco-friendly vendors, guest speakers, and numerous workshops on the social justice, economic or environmental...

The Dawson College annual Bilingual Business Administration Case Competition offers 48 teams (120 students) from participating CEGEPs across Quebec the opportunity to demonstrate their presentation skills and business acumen by analyzing, assessing and solving a business case. There are three components, Marketing, Accounting and Entrepreneurship cases to be analyzed as well the Business component. Our...

The Plaza Alexis Nihon Business Plan Competition is a new initiative for the second year by the Business Administration Department. It will approach ALL students in ALL programs in Dawson to participate in the submission of business plans for business ventures that are socially responsible. It will involve over 3000 students including all programs: Commerce,...

Professional artists Yohann Schepacz, Nivanh Chanthara and Marco Plouffe will speak to students in 3D Animation and Illustration for approximately 1 hour with a 20-30 minute question and answer session. Many of the students in 3D animation, illustration and fine arts have interests in digital painting, character design, story telling, film making, game making, and...

As an extension of the text which is the focus of the Humanities course students are taking, a professional theatre production of this same text will give students added insight and appreciation of the original. A live dramatization of Dostoevsky’s novel conveys to the students the richest possible translation of their reading experience. It also...

The Three Sister’s Garden, established in the 2015-16 year, is a commitment to acknowledge the land as Indigenous, promote Indigenous agricultural knowledge and provide students and staff alike a unique experiential learning experience that connects community and learning. This year, the Peace Centre will continue working on the Three Sister’s Garden in partnership with the...

The Walking Tour of St. Henri is an opportunity for students to step outside the classroom and to consider key concepts in geography and the social sciences in relation to their physical surroundings. The tour weaves together historical events and contemporary conversations, focusing on issues of urban planning, inequality, housing, gentrification, community-building and activism in...

Law and Society students will visit the old prison of Trois-Rivières which was built in 1822-1823. The prison is now part of the musée québécois de culture populaire. The visit includes a group session with an ex-convict who will describe the harsh reality of prison life in the 1970s and 1980s, just before the prison closed...